The extremes always seem to make the most noise, squawking loudly while condemning anyone who doesn't wholesale accept their quackery as "total fact" as traitors. I can't help but think they really are more interested in somehow furthering their causes than in establishing the veracity of those self-same causes.
I actually quit Farcebook largely because of this extremist dynamic, as it unfolded during the US Presidential election, a couple of years ago.
At first, Steemit seemed like a haven of sorts; more intelligent... and to the extent there was active dialogue, at least it was more respectful. And yet... here we also seem to be fracturing into anarcho-capitalist libertarians and something else... and yes, I agree there are far too many tinfoil hatters who throw away ideas simply because they don't "match the cause," regardless of whether they are actually good ideas. And they will even "mute" people for asking honest questions.
I'm not sure I am quite ready to throw in the towel yet and simply accept this as "the way of the world." I am pointing (softly/gently) at inconsistencies and ratting cages in a small and gradual way.
Anyway, thanks for bringing this up!